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the 150 year-old art nouveau icon is scheduled to open by the end of may after over 15 years of construction.
the interior design juxtaposes existing historical features of the building with clean, contemporary lines.
the house is designed to resemble a large piece of a tree trunk.
'the difficult part in moving a city is to preserve its sense of belonging, the history and the soul of the community,' says alexandra hagen, CEO of white arkitekter.
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Actualy it’s not a World First at all.
There is a former Black Sea Fleet naval base in Balaklava (Crimea) with a ‘full-scale’ tunnel for submarines built in 1950s.
Museum now.
The French tunnel is for tiny barges, not ships.
I’m sorry to say that it will not be the first “ship tunnel” in the the world… Near Marseille, in France, is the real first one, opened in 1927. It connected the Etang of Berre to the Mediterranean Sea and was closed in 1963 after a collapse of its vault … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rove_Tunnel